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AS THE WORLD BURNS
CLASH OF THE CLIMATE TITANS
Fresh Air / NPR — 28 Jan 2010
In part 1, Jeff Goodell discusses the facts behind his recent Rolling Stone article "As the World Burns," which details how Big Oil and Big Coal mounted one of the most aggressive lobbying campaigns in history to block solutions to global warming. He's (mostly) in favor of cap and trade.
In the second segment, Mark Shapiro lays out the case that the current cap-and-trade scheme is more about profits for market players than it is about reduction of CO2 emissions. Shapiro's article in Harper's is titled "Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game."
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The articles:
-- Rolling Stone: "As the World Burns" (no longer available)
-- Harpers: "Conning the Climate"
Related GP article:
-- Global Warming Conspiracies and Hoaxes
Related books:
-- Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products by Mark Schapiro
-- Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell
Related video:
-- The Story of Cap and Trade
-- Climategate Video
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Headlines, Obama's Speech, Howard Zinn — 28 Jan 2010 — Full show... Thursday's Headlines ~~ Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein respond to President Obama's first State of the Union speech ~~ A discussion of the accomplishments of the legendary historian-activist Howard Zinn, who passed away Wednesday
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Justice O'Connor Criticizes Campaign Finance Ruling — 26 Jan 2010 — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor thinks judicial independence in the state courts will be severely compromised by last week's Supreme Court decision striking down bans on corporate spending in elections.
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Another Look at Atrazine — 29 Jan 2010 — The EPA is reassessing Atrazine, one of the most widely used herbicides, for its effect on human health and on animals in the environment.
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Haiti: Reporting for the Long Run — 29 Jan 2010 — Less than a month after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, most US journalists have come and gone. AP's Haiti correspondent, Jonathan Katz, was one of the few journalists in Haiti before the quake. He talks about reporting from the island before, during, and after the flood of attention.
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Andrew Gause: Taxpayers vs. the Big Banks — 27 Jan 2010 — Back in 2008, all of the problem mortgages could have been paid off with a couple hundred billion dollars. Yet the banks claimed they needed $700 billion to avoid an economic apocalypse. Riiiiiight. Andrew Gause thinks that a much better fix for the economy would have been to use that money to massively stimulate the economy by giving $5,000 to every taxpayer—and letting the troubled big banks fail.
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